La-Mulana Portable is a 2D side-scrolling action-adventure game which draws inspiration from Castlevania and Metroid. Up until now the original game was only legitimately available in Japanese, although a fan produced English language patch has been created.

This game has it all, with well drawn pixel art, interesting puzzles to solve, and hard action.

The blog post sums it up nicely, drawing attention to its pixel art which, due to the popularity of the art style still, doesn’t actually look particularly aged and would certainly sit nicely alongside other great pixel art games on the Vita.

La-Mulana Portable, which is only a working title at present, promises to offer an action-adventure “Archeological Ruins Exploration Action Game“. Differences to the PlayStation Vita Portable version of the game from the original are described as being tuned for mobile play and aiming to make the most of Vita’s portability and beautiful screen.

La-Mulana Portable is slated for a December release in Japan, North America and Europe.

A border that preserves the game’s aspect ratio. It wasn’t made for wide-screen, it seems.

Lester Paredes

Nice. I’ve been wanting to play this. Have it on PA, but never got around to it. I don’t like the borders around the screen, the Vita’s screen is big for a portable system, but it’s still kinda small. Probably done to preserve the aspect ratio of the game. Still, I hope that they make it an option to remove it.